I was reading Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief today again after maybe an year (I wasn't able to during the previous nine months as School life was exam after exam after exam [9 months?]), for my book Annabeth and Lightning Thief. I was going through all the scenes with much more details and thinking than ever before, and while in the Medusa scene, I realized something for the first time (Idk If I was the only one yet who didn't realize this for so much time) Medusa wants to keep Percy as a statue for herself. She liked Poseidon, at least in the PJ world, and Percy is said to be REALLY like Poseidon. She calls his face handsome, and pity destroying it. She also had the chance to destroy it, as written in
"She could rake open my face if she wanted." But she didn't. Annabeth said she wanted to preserve Percy's statue with her. Idk if it all of it put together sounds really sus to u guys, but it does to me.